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Classrooms That Work: They Can All Read and Write + 1/2 price Schools That Work: Where All Children Read and Write, 2nd Edition - Softcover
@HEADLINE= This two-book set includes the most popular resources from celebrated authors Patricia Cunningham and Dick Allington! @BULLET= Buy Classrooms That Work and get Schools That Work HALF PRICE! @BULLET= Engaging! Both books are written in a readable and practical style while grounded in proven practices and current research. @BULLET= Discusses recent federal initiatives including comprehensive school reform models designed to address the problems of struggling readers. @BULLET= These books provide snapshots and portraits of schools and classrooms respectively, that work better for all children.
@SUMMARY= For one low price get Classrooms That Work and Schools That Work by authors you Patricia Cunningham and Dick Allington. Classrooms That Work promotes the integration of phonics and literature based process writing and reading instruction. The book helps all children engage in meaning-centered reading by showing teachers how to foster powerful decoding and comprehension strategies. Schools That Work picks up where Classrooms That Work leaves off, with a focus on how to craft school organization plans that foster expert classroom teaching. It offers a clear view of how schools must change if they are to meet the increased demands of education for the 21st century.
@AUTHBIO= Patricia M. Cunningham is a professor of Education at Wake Forest University. She has authored and co-authored several books promoting literacy, including Phonics They Use: Words For Reading And Writing, Reading And Writing In Elementary Classrooms: Strategies And Observations, Schools That Work: Where All Children Read and Write, and Classrooms That Work: They Can All Read And Write. @AUTHBIO= Richard L. Allington is the Fien Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He was a co-recipient of the Albert J. Harris Award from the International Reading Association for his "contributions to the better understanding of reading and learning disabilities". Dick is also a past president of the National Reading Conference and has been elected to membership in the Reading Hall of Fame.
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Addresses the importance of fostering fluency by providing teachers with a variety of methods to increase the amount of reading their students are doing throughout the day and teaching students to quickly and accurately read and spell common words. (Chapter 4) Suggests a variety of ways successful teachers differentiate their instruction to meet the needs of increasingly diverse classrooms. (Chapter 11) Differentiates instruction by providing “Tech Savvy Teacher” and “English Language Learners” boxes throughout all chapters. These boxes contain practical suggestions for using technology and other resources to make instruction as effective as possible for ALL students.
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"The text is written like a road map for specific instructional practices... teachers would value it as a long-term resources, using it as part of their daily practice." April Key, Principal, Global Science Middle School, Las Vegas, Nevada
"This is a very balanced and thoughtfully organized book for promoting excellent teaching and learning in our classrooms. I heartily recommend this book for teachers needing both a foundation to literacy guide and a book chock full of great ideas founded in research." Barry Hoonan, Odyssey Program, Bainbridge School District
The Fifth Edition of Classrooms That Work emphasizes a core set of ideas across a variety of timely topics, providing a comprehensive, balanced treatment of instructional reading methods for struggling and culturally diverse students.
Schools today have more children from racial and ethnic minority groups, more children who are learning English, more children from single-parent homes and more children living in poverty. The need for balanced, comprehensive literacy instruction that pervades the school day and curriculum is greater now than ever. Pat Cunningham’s and Dick Allington’s clear and friendly writing style emphasizes the importance of promoting the integration of phonics and literature-based process writing and reading instruction to enhance ALL students’ learning and reading skills.
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Meet the Authors
Patricia M. Cunningham is a professor of education at Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, North Carolina. She has taught in various elementary grades and been a curriculum coordinator and director of reading. Her major professional goal is promoting literacy for all children.
Richard L. Allington is a professor of education at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He is a past president of the National Reading Conference and a member of the Reading Hall of Fame. Dick has extensively researched effective teaching and how schools can develop effective, expert teachers.
@AUTHBIO= Patricia M. Cunningham is a professor of Education at Wake Forest University. She has authored and co-authored several books promoting literacy, including Phonics They Use: Words For Reading And Writing, Reading And Writing In Elementary Classrooms: Strategies And Observations, Schools That Work: Where All Children Read and Write, and Classrooms That Work: They Can All Read And Write. @AUTHBIO= Richard L. Allington is the Fien Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He was a co-recipient of the Albert J. Harris Award from the International Reading Association for his "contributions to the better understanding of reading and learning disabilities". Dick is also a past president of the National Reading Conference and has been elected to membership in the Reading Hall of Fame.
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- PublisherAllyn & Bacon
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0205396364
- ISBN 13 9780205396368
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
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